CfP: DoCEIS’16 - Deadline November 6, 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 7th Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems (DoCEIS'16)

April 11-13, 2016 | Caparica (Lisbon), Portugal

Important Dates

• Now: Submission of abstract
• 6 Nov 2015: Submission of full paper
• 11 Dec 2015: Notification of authors
• 3 Jan 2016: Submission of camera ready

Note: research paper selection will be based on full text, double blind review. However, prospective authors should submit a short abstract in advance, in order to check if the proposed topic fits within the conference scope

The 7th Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems (DoCEIS'16) will reflect on the growing interests in research, development and application of Cyber-Physical Systems. Fast progress on embedded intelligence and interconnection of systems, enabled by advances in pervasive computing, sensing technologies, and computer networks, including developments on Internet of Things and Cloud Computing, lead to new architectural approaches to systems engineering. By exploring the synergies between computational and physical components, these systems leverage the emerging "network effect" and induce new advanced applications.

Potential benefits can be found in all engineering fields and at all levels, e.g. supporting systems-of-systems, facilitating the industrial Internet and sensing enterprise, enabling effective smart energy grids, creating the basis for smart environments, etc. This approach can change the way engineering systems are designed while leading to exciting challenges for researchers and industrial practitioners.
Therefore, prospective contributors to DoCEIS'16 are challenged to identify in which ways their research topics can contribute to or benefit from cyber-physical systems.

DoCEIS'16 is aimed as an international forum to provide a platform for the presentation of research results coming out of the PhD works, and a space for discussion of post-graduation studies, PhD thesis plans, and practical aspects of a PhD work. Among other activities, it includes:

• Presentation of research results by PhD students (co-authored by their supervisors).
• Tutorials by invited experts on scientific, methodological, or soft skills topics.
• Presentation and discussion of the base ideas of the thesis plans.
• Discussion of the scientific and technical challenges in the several Electrical and Computer Engineering specialization areas.
• Sharing of experiences among PhD students from different geographical regions.
• Forum on practical aspects (e.g. Publications, job markets, careers, etc.).
• Creation of collaboration (social) networks.

Prospective authors of research papers are invited to submit their manuscripts reporting original work, in any of the scientific areas of the conference. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Nevertheless, each paper must make a clear link to the main theme of the conference, including a section describing that link.

Following the successful previous editions, proceedings are expected to be published by Springer, IFIP AICT series (indexed in Web of Science, SCOPUS and DBLP). Best papers will be considered for possible inclusion in a special journal issue.

There will also be poster discussion sessions regarding thesis plans. These sessions are designed in order to provide early feedback to PhD candidates in the initial phase of their studies. For PhD theses recently finished (during the last year), a special type of submissions is invited: extended papers (16 pages) providing a global overview of the thesis and its main findings.

Guidelines for paper preparation

Regular papers (8 pages):

• Clear formulation of the research question and its motivation
• One section (section 2) relating the PhD work to Cyber- Physical Systems (1 page)
• State of the art / related literature
• Research contribution and innovation
• Discussion of results and critical view
• Conclusions and further work
• References

Thesis overview papers (16 pages):

• Extended overview of a PhD thesis finished during the last year, including research question, hypothesis, approach and main findings.
• Also include a section relating the PhD work to Cyber-Physical Systems (at least 1 page)

Posters:

• Check specific guidelines on the web site.

Topics: (not limited to)

• Computational and Perceptional Systems
• Energy
• Enterprise Collaborative Networks
• Control and Decision
• Electronics
• Signal Processing
• Informatics Applied to Electrical Systems
• Robotics and Integrated Manufacturing
• Industry Information Systems
• Telecommunications
• Biomedical Engineering

CHAIRS

• Conference Chairman: Prof. Luis M. Camarinha-Matos
• Organization Chairman: Prof. Luis Gomes
• Associated Activities Chairman: Prof. Pedro Pereira
• Financial Chairman: Prof. Joao Goes

For additional information, please visit http://sites.uninova.pt/doceis